This Year’s Annual Meeting Speakers:
Kenneth L. Wolf, Ph.D. and Marilyn Knight, M.S.W.
We are pleased to announce that this year’s annual meeting speakers are Dr. Kenneth L. Wolf, Ph. D & Marilyn Knight, M.S.W. Our speakers are experts in their field and will be speaking on the topic of “Crisis Recovery After Active Shooter and Traumatic Events”.
Dr. Kenneth L. Wolf consults on Workplace Violence Prevention, Threat Assessment, Crisis Management Strategies. He is the Managing Partner of the Incident Management Team with affiliates worldwide.
Dr. Wolf assisted in writing the National Critical Incident Crisis Programs for UAW-General Motors, UAW-Chrysler, Pinkerton, Nortel and American Natural Resources (ANR) and trained their Crisis Response Team members at their North American facilities, respectively Dr. Wolf assisted US Army Infantry Units on-site at Ground Zero after the World Trade Center Terrorist attack. He has been a Violence Management and Crisis Response Consultant to the United States Postal Service (USPS) and assisted with designing the USPS National Violence Prevention Program and also site management following the mass shootings at the United States Post Office in Royal Oak (1991) and Dearborn, Michigan (1993). He was a Crisis Management Response after the Northwest air disasters of Flight #255 (1987) and Northwest Flights #299 and #1482 (1990). Dr. Wolf assisted Ryder System and UAW- General Motors after the Oklahoma City Terrorist bombing.
He helped develop world-wide Violence Prevention/Threat Management Programs for Intel and Eaton Corporation and trained threat assessment teams in North America, England, Holland, Switzerland, China, Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Malaysia and Southeast Asia, and for BASF, Pinkerton, Nortel.
He has been a News Analyst for the Detroit affiliates of ABC, NBC and CBS television. Dr. Wolf received his B.A. from Columbia College and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Wayne State University.
Marilyn Knight, M.S.W. is the President/CEO of the Incident Management Team (IMT), an international Crisis Management, Security and Violence Prevention consulting company. As a lecturer and trainer in the areas of Workplace Violence, she has presented at over 600 conferences and seminars in North America, South America, Europe, Hong Kong, China, and Asia.
Ms. Knight has consulted with Fortune 500 Companies in the areas of Violence Prevention, Active Shooter Survival, Threat Assessment, Organizational Change and Crisis Management. She assisted Intel Corporation in the design of their Workplace Violence Prevention System and training of their Workplace Response Teams in North America, the Philippines, Malaysia and Southeast Asia. She assisted Eaton Corporation in training their Corporate Threat Assessment Teams, worldwide.
She assisted in writing the National Critical Incident Response Programs for UAW-General Motors, UAW- -Chrysler, KeyBank, American Natural Resources (ANR) and Pinkerton, and in training their Crisis Response Team members at their North American facilities. She has also consulted with Ford Motor Corporation, Eaton, NBC, Wendy’s, Siemens Corporation, Lockheed- Martin, Comcast Cable, Delphi, TRW, BASF, Rockwell Automotive, New York Consolidated Edison, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, McDonalds and First Chicago- National Bank of Detroit.
She is the Director of a State of Michigan Department of Labor, MIOSHA Safety, Education and Training (SET) funded Grant, the purpose of which is to help corporations, employers, unions and governmental entities, develop Violence Prevention Policies, Systems, Active Shooter Training, Threat Assessment Teams and Post-Incident Crisis Response contingency plans. She has trained participants from over 2500 companies in Michigan.